§ 802. Definitions. As used in this article, unless the context\notherwise requires, the following words and terms shall have the meaning\nascribed to them.\n 1. "Adirondack park" or "park" means land lying within the area\ndescribed in subdivision one of section 9-0101 of the environmental\nconservation law including any future amendments thereto.\n 2. "Adirondack park local government review board" or "review board"\nmeans the board established in section eight hundred three-a.\n 3. "Agency" means the Adirondack park agency created by section eight\nhundred three of this article.\n 4. "Accessory use" means any use of a structure, lot or portion\nthereof that is customarily incidental and subordinate to and does not\nchange the character of a principal land use or development, including\nin the case of residential structures, professional, commercial and\nartisan activities carried on by the residents of such structures.\n 5. "Accessory structure" means any structure or a portion of a main\nstructure customarily incidental and subordinate to a principal land use\nor development and that customarily accompanies or is associated with\nsuch principal land use or development, including a guest cottage not\nfor rent or hire that is incidental and subordinate to and associated\nwith a single family dwelling.\n 6. "Agricultural service use" means any milk processing plant, feed\nstorage supply facility, farm machinery or equipment sales and service\nfacility; storage and processing facility for fruits, vegetables and\nother agricultural products or similar use directly and customarily\nrelated to the supply and service of an agricultural use.\n 7. "Agricultural use" means any management of any land for\nagriculture; raising of cows, horses, pigs, poultry and other livestock;\nhorticulture or orchards; including the sale of products grown or raised\ndirectly on such land, and including the construction, alteration or\nmaintenance of fences, agricultural roads, agricultural drainage systems\nand farm ponds.\n 8. "Agricultural use structure" means any barn, stable, shed, silo,\ngarage, fruit and vegetable stand or other building or structure\ndirectly and customarily associated with agricultural use.\n 9. "Approved local land use program" means any local land use program\napproved by the agency under section eight hundred seven.\n 10. "Campground" means any area designed for transient occupancy by\ncamping in tents, camp trailers, travel trailers, motor homes or similar\nfacility designed for temporary shelter.\n 11. "Character description, policies, purposes and objectives of a\nland use area" means those land use are character descriptions,\npolicies, purposes and objectives of the land use and development plan\ncontained in subdivision three of section eight hundred five.\n 12. "Chief elected officer" means in the case of a city, the mayor\nthereof; in the case of a town, the supervisor thereof; and in the case\nof a village, the mayor thereof.\n 13. "Class A regional project" and "class B regional project" means\nthe land use and development and subdivisions of land listed and so\ncharacterized in section eight hundred ten.\n 14. "Classification of compatible uses lists" means the land use and\ndevelopment plan's lists of primary uses and secondary uses for the land\nuse area contained in subdivision three of section eight hundred five.\n 15. "Clearcutting" means any cutting of all or substantially all trees\nover six inches in diameter at breast height over any ten-year cutting\ncycle.\n 16. "Commercial sand and gravel extraction" means any extraction from\nthe land of more than fifty cubic yards in any two year period of sand,\ngravel or topsoil (1) for the purpose of sale or use by persons other\nthan the owner of the land or (2) for the purpose of use by any\nmunicipality.\n 17. "Commercial use" means any use involving the sale or rental or\ndistribution of goods, services or commodities, either retail or\nwhol
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